New Opera, place Bastille, 2005

I was not far from 70 then, just fresh 71.

Bastille day, 2005 I went with my new digital camera to Paris - from Argenteuil - and took lots of photos.

It was the first time I have really 'seen' the new opera. I did not remember this picture at all.

I remembered the ballet of young muscled men in short shirts and bronzed arms, in the middle of the square. They were taking appart the podium of musicians who finished playing. They interested me more then the music, which was gone.

I am old, but my memory is not 'gone' yet. Probably, nor other things. And besides, I was just looking...